Surat: Bharuch-based Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers and Chemicals (GNFC) has started production and supply of medical grade oxygen to cater to the rising demand of oxygen among Covid patients.
In a release, the state government-owned company said that it started production immediately after resuming its planned annual shutdown earlier this month. GNFC will be producing 10,000 litres of medical grade oxygen daily which will be equivalent to 1,000 cylinders in a day. The company is also planning to ramp up the production capacity to double it and will be supplying the oxygen free of charge.
GNFC even modified its operations related to Air Separation Unit to address the issue of medical oxygen demand.
A long queue of ambulances outside GG Hospital in Jamnagar
RAJKOT/SURAT: Parents of three-year-old Yash Gokani (name changed) panicked when he suddenly suffered convulsion some days ago. His parents had tested positive for Covid-19 and recovered.
Yash’s antibody test was positive, leading doctors to safely presume that he too may have been infected but asymptomatic. Further investigation revealed that Yash had suffered from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a serious condition associated with Covid-19.
With the novel coronavirus gripping a large number of kids in this wave, doctors fear a bigger re-run of MIS-C which they saw in the previous pandemic wave too.
Surat: The Special Operation Group of city police busted a human trafficking racket on Saturday and rescued a 17-year-old minor who was brought here from Bangladesh to be pushed in flesh trade. Police arrested three Bangladesh nationals who are involved in the racket.
Police arrested Mijanur alias Shariful Shaikh, 36, his wife Ajmira Khatun, 32, and an agent Murtuza Shaikh, 31, for alleged involvement in the racket. The accused were nabbed from Kamrej.
“Police busted a human trafficking racket of and rescued a minor girl on Saturday. Police will investigate the involved criminals and try to find out if more such girls were pushed into prostitution by the same group,” said city police commissioner Ajay Tomar.
The SVP Hospital handled delivery of some 700-odd Covid-positive pregnant women but lost just one case. In the current wave, more lives have been lost (Representative image)
AHMEDABAD/SURAT/RAJKOT: Coronavirus continued to tighten its grip on death and suffering in Gujarat as the state reported a record 9,541 positive cases and record-high 97 deaths in a day on Saturday. While all sections of people, young and old, men and women are falling prey, doctors red-flagged more and more pregnant women getting adversely affected in the current surge.
“Not only are more pregnant women testing positive, more women are ending up in ICUs during the current spike.
In the initial days of April, there was notable enthusiasm for vaccination with thousands turning up at vaccination centres to take the jab
VADODARA/SURAT/RAJKOT: At a time when vaccination is said to be the most effective weapon to fight Covid-19, apart from wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing, the number of jabs administered per day has gone down drastically a fortnight.
In the initial days of April, there was notable enthusiasm for vaccination with thousands turning up at vaccination centres to take the jab. But as the month progressed the numbers started going down drastically. For instance, Surat had vaccinated 32,342 persons on April 5 but this number was reduced to less than one fourth on April 15 when merely 9,795 persons were vaccinated.